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hello and thank you for stopping by! Here on the Indie Untangled blog, you can figure out what to make with your latest stash acquisitions, learn about some talented fiber artisans and much, much more.

What to stash this week: Yarn-y mystery

If you enjoy a good mystery, then check out the Murder She Knit and Crochet club from Andrea of WoolenWomenFibers. This is a year-long yarn subscription and blanket make-along comes with a mystery, with your mini skeins as the “clues.” Detectives will be knitting the Northeasterly blanket by Melissa Alexander-Loomis or crocheting the Northeasterly blanket by Katy Stevens throughout the year and can also enter to win prizes by knitting or crocheting all 12 blanket chevrons each month….

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Skeins of self-striping yarn.

Here’s what to make with new self-striping and assigned pooling yarn from 29 Bridges Studio

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 14, 2022 and online. Tickets are now available!

This year, 29 Bridges Studio, one of our Indie Untangled vendors,...

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Aqua bottles of Soak wash and the text Wild Mint, take a walk on the wild side, new fragrance fall 2022.

Meet Wild Mint, the new scent from Soak

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 14, 2022 and online. Tickets are now available!

Blocking garments and doing laundry can be a chore, but using Soak makes the experience much more pleasant....

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A skein of variegated pinks/purples/oranges yarn with a pink mini skein.

What to stash this week: Socktober

Carolyn and Michelle of Olive & Two Ewe Studios are ready for a month that is all about the socks. They have Socktober Sock Sets that come with a full hank of sock yarn, a coordinating mini, a “Welcome to the Sock Side” bag and an exclusive Socktober acrylic pin. ...

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A light-skinned woman wearing a pink and white striped lacy sweater.

Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Murky Depths Dyeworks

This is the third in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 14, 2022 and online. Tickets are now available!

Along with your local yarn shop, it’s great to support your local indie dyers....

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A young child in a floral sweater holding a bouquet.

What to stash and what to make this week

Designer Caitlin Sheperd used Murky Depths Sanctuary, a fine 100% non-Superwash Merino wool, for the Blooming Peerie Cardigan. This child-sized cardi uses a clever slipped stitch technique and only two colours per row!

Carolyn and Michelle of Olive & Two Ewe Studios have kits for Scottish ...

A smiling Asian woman with wavy dark hair stands in front of a large gnarled tree and hugs a dozen un-dyed skeins of yarn.

Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Yarn Farm Kingston

This is the second in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 14, 2022 and online. Tickets are now available!

Have you ever been visiting a city or town and thought, “This place could use a yarn shop?”...

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A field of crimson blueberry bushes, a red and green hat and fingerless mitts with fanlike stitches and a skein of red and green yarn.

What to stash this week: Now entering fall

Blueberries can be fall themed, at least in the hands of designer Bristol Ivy and Debbie of Murky Depths Dyeworks. For last year’s Indie Untangled Where We Knit Yarn Club, the two collaborated on a colorway and two designs inspired by a field of lowbush blueberries that had turned a ...

Two light-skinned women smiling.

Pre-Rhinebeck Untangling: Yarncentrick

This is the first in a series of blog posts featuring the fabulous sponsors of Indie Untangled, taking place on October 14, 2022 and online. Tickets are now available!

We all know that yarn festivals are made even better with our friends,...

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Two women wearing a red textured sweater, fairisle colorwork vest and cabled scarf in rusty reds and earthy neutrals in front of a blue wall.

What to stash this week: Campfire yarn tales

Hanna Lisa and the team at Making Stories is ready for fall and all its cosy knits with their campfire-themed Issue 8. It features 13 modern designs to keep us warm, whether we’re gathered around a fire, reuniting with fiber friends at festivals or browsing the local farmers’...

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A circle of multicolored mini skeins of yarn.

What to stash this week: Big sky yarn country

Kate of McMullin Fiber Co was inspired by the vastness of the western skies for her Big Sky Collection, which debuts just in time for fall. There are 12 colorways that reflect the ever-changing skies of Yellowstone Country. They’re available on several bases, as well as mini skein sets on Kate’s Squishy Sock base ...

A road and mountains viewed through a car windshield.

How to pack clothing and yarn for a cross-country road trip

This summer, my husband and I packed up our trusty 10-year-old Honda Civic and set out on a nearly 10,000-mile journey from New York to the Pacific Northwest and back. A cross-country road trip had been a long-awaited dream of mine, and so I had a lot of time to ...

Skeins of various speckled, variegated and tonal browns, worn leather,grey and tan colors. A sign that says “woolen wild and free. A project bag with various horses on the fabric and various horse charms with sugar cube, cowgirl hat and apple accessories to match.

What to stash this week: Wild horses couldn’t drag you away

If you’re both a horse person and a yarn person, you’ll love the latest collection from WoolenWomenFibers. Woolen, Wild & Free is inspired by the beauty, freedom and ruggedness of horseback riding trails and wild horses. The yarn comes in deep, autumn-appropriate wood tones, with hints of leather. ...

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Skeins of yarn surrounded by dry leaves, a candle and a metal vase, in black and white.

What to stash this week: A winter garden

While you may have already ordered your yarn Advent (or, ahem, a few…), you should consider welcoming a bit of Italy into your home this winter. Giulia and Stefania of Lanivendole have opened orders for their winter yarn box. It’s a little different from the traditional winter yarn box ...

An image collage featuring a skylit hallway with a checkered floor, blue and gold speckled yarn and a blue and gold speckled cowl next to a lit candle.

What to stash this week: Knit, purl and soul

For this year’s Indie Untangled Where We Knit Yarn Club, Crystal of Milly’s Knit Designs and Gabby of Plies & Hellhounds were inspired by a photo Gabby captured on holiday with her husband in Paris. They named the resulting colorway and cowl design Meraki (mA-’rak-E), a noun which means the soul,...

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An orange mountain with orange and yellow wildflowers, and yarn with speckles of orange, yellow, green and blue.

What to stash this week: Wild yarn on the PCT

For the latest installment of the Indie Untangled Knitting Our National Parks series, Chelsea of The Enchanted Kettle, who resides a (relatively) short drive east of the trail in Boise, Idaho, is providing us a glimpse of the part of the PCT overseen by the Bureau of Land Management in California....

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